 They found it so effectual, or were impressed with so high an opinion of its virtues, that they proposed to keep it and forfeit the money ; but the Laird of Lee would not consent to part with so venerable and so gifted an heirloom. The laird of that time...  Woodnotes of a wanderer [in verse]. - Seite 83von John Ramsay - 1852 - 275 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Robert Chambers - 1827 - 416 Seiten
...its place as a pledge. They found it so effectual, or were impressed with so high an opinion of its virtues, that they proposed to keep it, and forfeit...the money ; but the Laird of Lee would not consent to part with so venerable and so gifted an heir-loom. The Laird of that time was a high cavalier, and... | |
 | John Ramsay - 1851 - 288 Seiten
...three times plunged into a quantity of water, and once drawn round, — t/iree dips and a sweil, — as the country people express it, — and the cattle...is said to have cured Lady Baird of Saughtonhall, who having been bit by a mad dog, exhibited all the symptoms of hydrophobia. In his fine chivalric... | |
 | William Chambers - 1853 - 858 Seiten
...its place as a pledge. They found it so effectual, or were impressed with so dish an opinion of its virtues, that they proposed to keep it, and forfeit...the money ; but the Laird of Lee would not consent to part with so venerable and so gifted an heir-loom. The laird of that time was a high Cavalier, and... | |
 | William Jones - 1880 - 778 Seiten
...^6,000 sterling in its place as a pledge. They were so highly impressed with the virtues of the amulet, that they proposed to keep it and forfeit the money, but the Laird of Lee would not part with it. About the beginning of the last century, Lady Baird, of Saughtonhall, having been bitten... | |
 | Sarah Hutchins Killikelly - 1889 - 516 Seiten
...pounds sterling in its place as a pledge. They were so deeply impressed with the virtues of the stone, that they proposed to keep it and forfeit the money, but the Laird of Lee would not part with his treasure. "The Talisman," by Sir Walter Scott, is one of the best of the thirty-two novels... | |
 | 1890 - 546 Seiten
...its place as a pledge. They found it so effectual, or were impressed with so high an opinion of its virtues, that they proposed to keep it and forfeit...the money ; but the Laird of Lee would not consent to part with so venerable and so gifted an heirloom. The laird of that time was a High Cavalier, and... | |
 | Sarah Hutchins Killikelly - 1889 - 432 Seiten
...pounds sterling in its place as a pledge. They were so deeply impressed with the virtues of the stone, that they proposed to keep it and forfeit the money, but the Laird of Lee would not part with his treasure. "The Talisman," by Sir Walter Scott, is one of the best of the thirty-two novels... | |
 | Cora Linn Morrison Daniels - 1903 - 592 Seiten
...its place as a pledge. They found it so effectual, or were impressed with so high an opinion of its virtues, that they proposed to keep it and forfeit the money; but the Laird of Lee would not consent to part with so venerable and so gifted an heirloom. The laird of that time was a high cavalier, and... | |
 | Cora Linn Daniels, C. M. Stevans - 2003 - 592 Seiten
...its place as a pledge. They found it so effectual, or were impressed with so high an opinion of its virtues, that they proposed to keep it and forfeit the money; but the Laird of Lee would not consent to part with so venerable and so gifted an heirloom. The laird of that time was a high cavalier, and... | |
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